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Family Literacy: Directions in Research and Implications for Practice -- January 1996

Table of Contents

Title Page
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Summary of the Research Design Symposium on Family Literacy

Commissioned Papers

• Integrated Services, Cross-Agency Collaboration, and Family Literacy, Judith Alamprese

• English Immigrant Language Learners: Cultural Accommodation and Family Literacy, Richard Durán

• Designing and Conducting Family Literacy Programs That Account for Racial, Ethnic, Religious, and Other Cultural Differences, Vivian L. Gadsden

• Family Literacy Programs: Creating a Fit with Families of Children with Disabilities, Beth Harry

• Longitudinal Study of Family Literacy Program Outcomes, Andrew Hayes

• Family Literacy: Parent and Child Interactions, Larry Mikulecky

• Teaching Parenting and Basic Skills to Parents: What We Know, Douglas Powell

• Intergenerational Transfer of Literacy, Catherine Snow and Patton Tabors

• Informing Approaches to Serving Families in Family Literacy Programs: Lessons From Other Family Intervention Programs, Robert St. Pierre and Jean Layzer

• Meeting the Needs of Families in Family Literacy Programs, Dorothy Strickland

Appendices

• A List of Symposium Participants

• B Biographical Sketches of Commissioned Authors

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